Chandler Wilson

Many of Wilson's compositions have been premiered and performed on the concert band stage with All-County/District Honor Bands and All-State Bands. His works have also been performed at the Music for All National Festival and the Midwest International Band and Orchestra Clinic. His composition, Legends o f the Galaxy (A Cosmic Fanfare), was ranked in the Top 100 band compositions in the American Band College/Band World Magazine/Western International Band Clinic Literature List for 2016 and one of his most recent works, Suite Forty-Four, was performed at the 2019 Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic by the Hikarigaoka Girls High School Wind Orchestra.

Prior to his appointment at Florida State University, Wilson served as Associate Director of Bands and Director of Athletic Bands at Eastern Michigan University, with previous public school experience as director of bands at Hollywood Hills High School and Cooper City High School. Wilson also served as the associate conductor of the Broward Symphonic Band under Neil Jenkins and the assistant conductor of the Music Ambassadors Europe Music Tour in the summers of 2010 and 2012. Wilson has studied conducting under the batons of Prof. Richard Clary, Jack Stamp, Julian White, Shelby Chipman, Roby George, an d Maestro Raffaele Ponti.

He has works published with Bravo Music, BRS Music Inc., C.L.Barnhouse, CLW Music Warehouse, Murphy Music Press, Inc., Randall Standridge Music Publications, and Wingert Jones Publications. 

Wilson holds professional memberships in the College Band Directors National Association, National Association for Music Educators, Florida Music Educators Association, Florida Bandmasters Association, National Band Association, Kappa Kappa Psi National Honorary Band Fraternity, Pi Kappa Lambda National Music Honor Society, and is an honorary member "Friend of the Arts" of Sigma Alpha Iota, Tau Beta Sigma, and Phi Mu Alpha. Wilson is a recipient of the Florida Bandmasters Association "Tom Bishop Award" and is also a member of ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers.) Wilson has also been recognized and honored by Whos Who Among America Teachers.

He currently resides in the Sanford/Lake Mary area in Florida, along with his wife, Ashley, and their two children, Addisyn (Addi) and Chandler, Jr. (CJ).